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Title
Surface Radiation Data Set - Heliosat (SARAH) - Edition 3
Citation
Pfeifroth, Uwe; Kothe, Steffen; Drücke, Jaqueline; Trentmann, Jörg; Schröder, Marc; Selbach, Nathalie; Hollmann, Rainer (2023): Surface Radiation Data Set - Heliosat (SARAH) - Edition 3, Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring, DOI:10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/SARAH/V003, https://doi.org/10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/SARAH/V003. [BibTeX entry]
Publisher
Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF)
Publication year
2023
Author(s)
Pfeifroth, Uwe; Kothe, Steffen; Drücke, Jaqueline; Trentmann, Jörg; Schröder, Marc; Selbach, Nathalie; Hollmann, Rainer
Description
The third edition of the Surface Solar Radiation Data Set - Heliosat (SARAH-3) is a satellite-based climate data record of the solar surface irradiance, the surface direct irradiance (direct horizontal and direct normalized), the sunshine duration, the photosynthetically active radiation, daylight, and the effective cloud albedo derived from satellite-observations of the visible channels of the MVIRI and the SEVIRI instruments onboard the geostationary Meteosat satellites. SARAH-3 covers the time period 1983/01/01 until 2020/12/31 as climate data record (CDR) and is operationally extended as interim climate data record (ICDR) to the present with a latency of 5 days; the data cover the region ±65° longitude and ±65° latitude. The products are available as monthly and daily means, and as 30-min instantaneous data (sunshine duration is available as monthly and daily sum) on a regular latitude/longitude grid with a spatial resolution of 0.05° x 0.05° degrees. The data record is complemented with a comprehensive documentation of the algorithms used and the generation of the data record. Validation report and user guidance are available as well.
Format
NetCDF-4
Version
3.0
Temporal coverage
1983-01-01 - present
Geographic coverage
Latitude: -65.00° S to 65.00° N
Longitude: -65.00° W to 65.00° E
Size
12.3 TiB
Documentation
- Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), SARAH-3
- Product User Manual (PUM) SARAH-3
- Validation Report (VAL) SARAH-3
Related publications
- Müller, R., U. Pfeifroth, C. Träger-Chatterjee, J. Trentmann, and R. Cremer (2015), Digging the METEOSAT Treasure-3 Decades of Solar Surface Radiation, Remote Sensing, 7(6), 8067-8101, doi:10.3390/rs70608067.
- Pfeifroth, U., A. Sanchez-Lorenzo, V. Manara, J. Trentmann, and R. Hollmann, 2018: Trends and Variability of Surface Solar Radiation in Europe based on Surface- and Satellite-based Data Records, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 1735-1754, doi: 10.1002/2017JD027418.
- Kothe, S., U. Pfeifroth, R. Cremer, J. Trentmann, and R. Hollmann, 2017: A Satellite-Based Sunshine Duration Climate Data Record for Europe and Africa, Remote Sens., 9, 429, doi:10.3390/rs9050429.
Auxiliary data
Related Data Records
- A previous version of this data record is available from here: DOI:10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/SARAH/V001.
- A previous version of this data record is available from here: DOI:10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/SARAH/V002_01.
Comment
The record size refers to the CDR part of the data record (1983-01 until 2020-12).